TIJUANA, BC - Youth with disabilities may learn culinary arts at DocStyle Cuisine Academy A.C., a body of civil society which offers an opportunity to become technical food specialists and get decent jobs to earn a living.

Chef Luis Martín Castro, President of DocStyle, is seeking candidates to be part of the first generation of this effort to integrate people with disabilities into productive life. He said that any young person with disabilities is a candidate and can participate in the project which is intended to teach culinary arts as a means of subsistence. He said the first generation of DocStyle will be through a scholarship with everything needed to learn how to cook not only for themself but for the public in restaurant dining areas.

The Agency will pay for theoretical and practical classes four times a week, three hours a day, he said. The curriculum is designed to end in year and a half and once they finish, graduates will get a certificate with official validity from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Applicants are subject to a socio-economic review and an official record of special education to determine required skills.